Facebook boss Technician Interested Recruit Russia

MOSCOW - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, this week was busy with his travels in Moscow, Russia. It's just that, in contrast to several trips abroad, because this time Zuckerberg to Russia purely for business.

When his trip in Russia, Zuckerberg met with Prime Minister of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev for 20 minutes. During the meeting, the two reportedly discussed about the technology industry, copyright, and the possibility of Facebook open a research center in Moscow.

For Facebook, Russia with a population of over 140 million, is a significant growth opportunity. Moreover, Zuckerberg reportedly interested in recruiting Russian technicians to work for Facebook.

Zuckkerberg meeting with Medvedev also not unrequited. Because Madvedev a fan of technology in recent years has been to several companies in Sillicon Valley, including Twitter and Apple. While visiting the Apple office, Medvedev also met with Apple CEO mantaan who had died at the end of last year, Steve Jobs.

Therefore, the second meeting could pave the way to work together to increase the presence of Facebook in Russia and the number of workers in the field of technology.

During an interview at an event in Russia, Zuckerberg revealed that he has spent most of his time in the country to convince developers and technicians that work with Facebook.

"The more we talk to developers, engineers, and entrepreneurs here are building things using Facebook. And of course, many companies are also building a new Russia," said Zuckerberg, as quoted by Mashable, Wednesday (3/10 / 2012).

"One of the things we've done in various countries around the world is our platform can be used by people to create applications that are localized for different countries. One that I want is to build Russian companies that can connect to Facebook and make it (Facebook) a better platform for the people here, "he concluded.

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